LEARY (learier, leariest)

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Irregular inflected forms: learier    , leariest   

• LEARY (noun)
  The noun LEARY has 1 sense:

1. United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996)

  Familiarity information: LEARY used as a noun is very rare.

• LEARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Leary; Tim Leary; Timothy Francis Leary; Timothy Leary

Instance hypernyms:

psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)

 Context examples 

The paper presents analyses of three expeditions led by scientist Maureen O’Leary of Stony Brook University to rock exposures in the Sahara.

(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)

You don’t often see four such beauties together, and all with as much as they could carry, save only Chris, who is too leary a cove to drink when there’s somethin’ goin’ forward.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fossils found on the expeditions indicate that the sea supported some of the largest sea snakes and catfish that ever lived, extinct fishes that were giants compared to their modern-day relatives, mollusk-crushing fishes, tropical invertebrates, long-snouted crocodilians, early mammals and mangrove forests, said O’Leary.

(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)